I have tried all of the suggestions and the Breaking News is still at the bottom of the right hand side bar.
The biggest complaint I had was the ridiculous old California messages at the top of my comments page. It slowed down my new 1.8 ghz computer with 512 memory and other speed up goodies. So I went to my profile and removed California from my profile. Now I'm stateless, and the BS of old California messages is gone.
In my personal menus, I just have the basic headlines showing.
Now everything on most days is speeding along like before.
If John Robinson would just program Breaking News to be at the top or allow me to put Breaking News at the top of my Right Hand Side Bar, I just might increase my monthly donation to Free Republic.